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Definition: Unanimously |
UnanimouslyAdverb1. Of one mind; without dissent; "the Senate unanimously approved the bill"; "we voted unanimously". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unanimously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: UnanimouslySynonyms: nem con (adv), nemine contradicente (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assent | With one consent, with one voice, with one accord; unanimously, una voce, by common consent, in chorus, to a man; nem. con., nemine dissentiente; without a dissentient voice; as one man, one and all, on all hands. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unanimously |
| English words defined with "unanimously": nem con, nemine contradicente ♦ With one voice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unanimously": chiclet keyboard ♦ Nem. Con ♦ Opposition. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The 3 choppers are steadily approaching what has unanimously agreed to be the front of these spaceships, a parabolic indentation 9 city blocks in diameter. (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich) | |
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William Tecumseh Sherman | If nominated by either party, I should preemptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | On the 25th of May, seven States having convened, George Washington, of Virginia, was unanimously elected President, and the consideration of the proposed constitution was commenced. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | If a report by the Council is unanimously agreed to by the members thereof other than the Representatives of one or more of the parties to the dispute, the Members of the League agree that they will not go to war with any party to the dispute which complies with the recommendations of the report. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In a few minutes five were unanimously designated and left the ranks. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Directive 90/220/EEC requires that the Commission is ultimately obliged to authorize a GMO, if the application fulfills current EU legislation and if it is not rejected unanimously in the Council, or if the Council fails to act within the fixed deadline. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Nicaragua | On March 6, the National Assembly approved the law unanimously. (references) |
Hong Kong | In December 1999, the Court of Final Appeal ruled unanimously that laws against flag-desecration did not violate the Basic Law (or the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) subsumed therein) and reinstated the 12 months' probation given to two persons convicted of desecrating the Hong Kong and Chinese flags during a peaceful demonstration in 1998. In February, a prominent local activist was convicted of desecrating the Hong Kong flag by publicly and willfully defiling it during three separate public protests in July 2000 and was placed on a 12-month good behavior bond for $385 (HK$3,000). Human rights groups maintained that laws prohibiting flag desecration do not comply with Article 19 of the ICCPR and are therefore not consistent with Hong Kong's international legal obligations. (references) | |
Discrimination | Malaysia | On August 1, the Parliament unanimously approved a Constitutional amendment barring discrimination on the basis of sex. (references) |
Economic History | Philippines | The Philippine Supreme Court subsequently endorsed unanimously the constitutionality of the transfer of power. (references) |
Zimbabwe | The same day, the UN Security Council endorsed the settlement agreement and formally voted unanimously to call on member nations to remove sanctions. (references) | |
Norway | The Norwegian Government offered the throne of Norway to Danish Prince Carl in 1905. After a plebiscite approving the establishment of a monarchy, the parliament unanimously elected him king. (references) | |
Human Rights | Argentina | In February the Council of Magistrates unanimously suspended Judge Carlos Liporaci in anticipation of a subsequent impeachment hearing on charges of illicit enrichment. (references) |
Macau | In August 2000, the Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a Commission against Corruption Act, which increased the investigative powers of Macau's independent graft-fighting organization. (references) | |
Guyana | On November 27, the inquest jury unanimously ruled that the GPF should be held criminally responsible for Shafeek's death; at year's end, the police had filed a challenge against the inquest ruling. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guatemala | On April 26, the UNCHR unanimously approved the creation of a Special Rapporteur for the defense of the rights of indigenous people. (references) |
Political Rights | Hong Kong | The Court unanimously found that the practice violated both the Bill of Rights and the Sex Discrimination Ordinances. (references) |
Lesotho | In 1999 the Parliament unanimously elected the first female Speaker of the National Assembly, who still continued to be the Speaker at year's end. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | In March a trial court's 3-judge panel unanimously convicted 22 individuals (among them most of the leaders of the vigilante action) on charges of coercion and illegal detention for the October 1999 take over of a SITRABI banana workers union hall. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to study the science of government, appointed one hundred of his fattest subjects as members of a parliament to make laws for the collection of revenue. Forty of these he named the Party of Opposition and had his Prime Minister carefully instruct them in their duty of opposing every royal measure. Nevertheless, the first one that was submitted passed unanimously. Greatly displeased, the King vetoed it, informing the Opposition that if they did that again they would pay for their obstinacy with their heads. The entire forty promptly disemboweled themselves. "What shall we do now?" the King asked. "Liberal institutions cannot be maintained without a party of Opposition." "Splendor of the universe," replied the Prime Minister, "it is true these dogs of darkness have no longer their credentials, but all is not lost. Leave the matter to this worm of the dust." So the Minister had the bodies of his Majesty's Opposition embalmed and stuffed with straw, put back into the seats of power and nailed there. Forty votes were recorded against every bill and the nation prospered. But one day a bill imposing a tax on warts was defeated -- the members of the Government party had not been nailed to their seats! This so enraged the King that the Prime Minister was put to death, the parliament was dissolved with a battery of artillery, and government of the people, by the people, for the people perished from Ghargaroo. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | I would have preferred to carry through to the finish whatever the personal agony it would have involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so. |
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| "Unanimously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unanimously" is used about 511 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 511 | 11,859 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unanimously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 一致同意 (unanimous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | jednotnì, jednomyslnì (by common consent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | med enstemmighed. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | met eenparigheid van stemmen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yksimielisesti (by common consent), yhdestä suusta (with one voice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | unanimité, l'-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | einmütig (unanimous), einstimmige. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παμψηφεί. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שכם אח" (abreast, together), קול אח", פ" אח" (unanimous, with one voice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egyhangúlag (as one man, with one accord, with one voice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | seiring (in a line, in a row, in agreement, in harmony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | unanimit (unanimity), all'unanimit (solidly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 異口同音 (in concert, with one voice), 挙って (all, all together), 満票 , 口々に (severally), 口口に (severally), 口'揃えて (in chorus), 万 一致で . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くちぐちに (severally), くち'そろえて (in chorus), ま"じょういっちで, ま"ぴょう (rambling criticism), いくどうお" (in concert, with one voice), "ぞって (all, all together, check, cheque). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 만장일치 으로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lesh un' aigney (unanimous), lesh coaigney, dy coaignagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | animouslyunay por unanimidade. (various references) unanim (common, consentaneous, consentient, solid, unanimous). (various references) единодушно (with a single heart, with one accord). (various references) složno, jednoglasno. (various references) por unanimidad. (various references) enstämmigt (unison, with one voice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | unianimiter. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Unanimously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unamimously, unaminously, unanamously. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unanimously" (pronounced yuwna"numuslē) |
| 7 | -n u m u s l ē | anonymously, synonymously. |
| 5 | -m u s l ē | autonomously, enormously, famously, posthumously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, ambitiously, anxiously, assiduously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, ferociously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, harmoniously, hellaciously, helplessly, hideously, hilariously, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, jealously, judiciously, laboriously, listlessly, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, mysteriously, needlessly, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, seriously, shamelessly, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, tediously, tenaciously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-m-n-n-o-s-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: aluminous, unanimous. | |
-3 letters: laminous, luminous, nominals, numinous, unisonal. | |
-4 letters: alimony, alumins, alumnus, amnions, annulus, anonyms, malison, mansion, minyans, moulins, mousily, nominal, onanism, solanin, solanum, sunnily, unmanly, unnails, unnoisy. | |
-5 letters: aliyos, aloins, alumin, alumni, amnion, amnios, animus, anions, annoys, annuli, annuls, anonym, asylum, inlays, insoul, limans, linums, lumina, mainly, miaous, miauls, minyan, mislay, moulin, muslin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-m-n-n-o-s-u-u-y" | |
+2 letters: mountainously. | |
+3 letters: insurmountably. | |
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